Raymond Queneau Quotes
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.
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“I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
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An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama.
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Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
